The first Academy Awards were presented in nineteen twenty-nine during a private dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

During the first year, the women kept a monthly average of almost nine kilograms of vegetables for home use.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

American inventor Dean Kamen started FIRST in nineteen eighty-nine to increase young people's interest in science and technology.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

National Woman's Day was first celebrated in the United States on February twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

At first,most of the nine Supreme Court judges had planned to give a decision without answering this question.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

However,information gathered for the first three months of this year suggest two thousand nine will be even worse.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

The nineteen fifty-nine album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was the first jazz album to sell more than one million copies.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in sixteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

She became the first Hispanic justice on the United States Supreme Court in two thousand nine.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

The Washington Nationals chose Strasburg with the first pick in the two thousand nine baseball draft.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The doll first appeared at the toy fair in New York on March ninth, nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

He won his first Grammy Award in nineteen eighty-nine for best country male vocal performance.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

In eighteen sixty-nine, he became the first white American to explore much of the canyon.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

The United States first recognized the invention of an automobile seat belt in eighteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

This was the first of nine movies she starred in with actor Spencer Tracy.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

But by nineteen seventy-nine, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine had become an old ship.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The first VOA broadcast in Special English took place on October nineteenth, nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

For example,it contains seventy-nine copies of the first printed collection of Shakespeare's plays.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

On April seventh, nineteen fifty-nine, the space agency introduced the first American astronauts.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Also left forever on the moon is a sign with these words: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon July,nineteen sixty-nine A.D.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The first rail line to cross the nation was completed in eighteen sixty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The first show in the "SpongeBob SquarePants" series was broadcast in nineteen ninety-nine.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

The Lowell family first came to the colony of Massachussetts in sixteen thirty-nine.

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This year,Lilith Fair returned for the first time since nineteen ninety-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

George Washington issued the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation in seventeen eighty-nine.

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Gene Kelly was part of another movie-making first in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2011.06.05